Answer by Anwar Mahmood for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and...
Beyond NTFS, the server hosting the file system and the client using the file system [remotely] can also make a difference to how NTFS behaves and performs. Clients usually use the SMB protocol to...
View ArticleAnswer by ximik for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and directories
I had real experience with about 100 000 files (each several MBs) on NTFS in a directory while copying one online library.It takes about 15 minutes to open the directory with Explorer or 7-zip.Writing...
View ArticleAnswer by Spoc for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and directories
I am building a File-Structure to host up to 2 billion (2^32) files and performed the following tests that show a sharp drop in Navigate + Read Performance at about 250 Files or 120 Directories per...
View ArticleAnswer by Tony Lee for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and...
There are also performance problems with short file name creation slowing things down. Microsoft recommends turning off short filename creation if you have more than 300k files in a folder [1]. The...
View ArticleAnswer by MrB for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and directories
Here's some advice from someone with an environment where we have folders containing tens of millions of files.A folder stores the index information (links to child files & child folder) in an...
View ArticleAnswer by Constantin for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and...
When you create a folder with N entries, you create a list of N items at file-system level. This list is a system-wide shared data structure. If you then start modifying this list continuously by...
View ArticleAnswer by Brian Knoblauch for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and...
For local access, large numbers of directories/files doesn't seem to be an issue. However, if you're accessing it across a network, there's a noticeable performance hit after a few hundred (especially...
View ArticleAnswer by Oli for NTFS performance and large volumes of files and directories
100,000 should be fine.I have (anecdotally) seen people having problems with many millions of files and I have had problems myself with Explorer just not having a clue how to count past 60-something...
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How does Windows with NTFS perform with large volumes of files and directories?Is there any guidance around limits of files or directories you can place in a single directory before you run into...
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